Texas Supreme Court January 15, 1842, No. XIII (Byrne v. Powell)

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

This is a voluminous case terminating in one question, arising upon the act regulating attachments, of January 28, 1839.

On the 23d February, 1839, the appellants as a mercantile firm filed their petition, alleging that Powell, on the 24th January, 1837, made three promissory notes to Foster, due at sixty, ninety and 120 days, for sums that amounted in principal to $3962.